SuperFLEB

"Best goddamn hammer I've ever used."

Amateur.

"Listen up. I've got three people here, and I have a gu... Wait. Where did I put the...? Put it in my coat, went to the bank, stopped at Burger King, and came here. In the other coat. Damn. Okay. I need to run out to my car. I'll call you back."

Tip: Go to /r/panelshow, sort by New, obsessively refresh so you can get in before new posts get quota-limited, stop watching American TV, have nothing else to talk about with people around you in real life, end up here instead of being with your family, be me.

I suspect it was a differentiating factor from when there was more competition in the quiz-show arena. Now that there are fewer straight-up quiz shows around, it seems like an odd gimmick.

It's a good thing to do even when you're trying to make sense of a situation absent an opponent. "Everyone's the hero of their own story", as the saying I can't recall the author of goes, so if you really want to figure out why people think or do something, the best first step is to find out what angle they might have that makes them the hero of their story. It might be based on misjudgement, sure, but not many people set out to drop a deuce on the world absent any reason.